Hobus System
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[edit] Overview
The Hobus star was the closest stellar neighbor to the Romulan home system at a distance of 2 light-years before it exploded into SN 2387ui.
[edit] Stellar Classification
Hobus was an ancient G-class star, nearly as old as the milky way itself. As one of the billions of G-class stars in the galaxy, it was not studied at any great degree until a Romulan expedition surveyed the system for additional minerals. The data on the star was set aside and subsequently forgotten.
[edit] Satellites
Hobus I
Class: D
Orbital Period: 24 Earth days
Rotational Period: 24 Earth days
Orbital distance: 0.24 au
Diameter: 3,000 km
Notes: A supposedly barren rock, tidally locked to the star, the trace amounts of deuterium and iridium in it's mantle weren't worth the expense to extricate. Increased interest in decalithium in 2387 brought the Romulan Nero to mine the planet's riches.
Hobus II
Class: J
Orbital Period: 296 Earth days
Rotational Period: 0.54 Earth days
Orbital distance: 0.82 au
Diameter: 50,000 km
Notes: Has a ring system spanning nearly a quarter AU with two dozen distinct ring structures.
Hobus III
Class: F
Orbital Period: 1514.6 Earth days
Rotational Period: 0.84 Earth days
Orbital distance: 3.04 au
Diameter: 10,000 km
Notes: Hobus III was mined extensively by the Romulan Empire until it was completely stripped of it's valuable mineral content. It has since collapsed under gravity to 9/10 of its original diameter with a slightly irregular shape.
[edit] Spock's Findings
In late 2386, Ambassador Spock still lived on Romulus. In what spare time he had, he often perused scientific data in the Romulan databases. He came across an entry on the Hobus system, the note on Hobus I containing decalithium piquing his interest. He soon noticed the nearly imperceptable differences between the Hobus star and what one would expect from a G-class star.
Spock acquired, with not a little political maneuvering, the raw data feeds from the Romulan science vessel that last surveyed the star. He performed exponentially more analyses on the data than the Romulans ever did. Due to these findings, he surmised that the Hobus star was not a usual G-class star, but in fact it was made up entirely of antimatter, specifically anti-hydrogen and anti-helium. The presence of a (relatively) large antimatter reactor attracts a sheath of tachyons that surround the star.
The problem was that it was rapidly running out of fuel.
[edit] SN 2387ui
On 12 March, 2387 in Earth's calendar, the Hobus star expanded into the and consumed the Hobus planets. On June 12th the star collapsed and exploded in an antimatter supernova.
The shockwave and stellar material, driven by the now absorbed tachyon sheath, expanded outward at superluminal speeds. Within 27 hours it struck the Romulan homeworlds and consumed everything in it's path adding to it's own energy. Like nothing ever before seen, the event threatened to consume the entire galaxy. Spock was determined to do something about it, but after previous meetings with the Vulcan and Romulan governments, he found that he would have to do it himself.
Unfortunately, Hobus went supernova before he could act.
[edit] Aftermath
See also: Destruction of Romulus
Romulus and Remus were consumed by the Hobus supernova in June of 2387, the superluminal shockwave reaching the Romulan home system in just over a day. 10 days after the event Spock was successful in neutralizing the supernova remnant with an artificial black hole that absorbed the entire supernova remnant. A 14 light-year wide sphere was annihilated by the supernova. Spock himself is presumed lost.
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